Matthew Rohrer is the author of A Hummock in the Malookas, Satellite, A Green Light, Rise Up and A Plate of Chicken. With Joshua Beckman he wrote Nice Hat, Thanks and recorded the audio CD Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. Octopus Books published his action/adventure chapbook-length poem They All Seemed Asleep in 2008. His poems have been widely anthologized and have appeared in many journals. He’s received the Hopwood Award for poetry and a Pushcart prize, and was selected as a National Poetry Series winner, and was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. He teaches in the creative writing program at NYU and lives in Brooklyn.